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Jamie and Carl Jackson say that they are happy to be fashion’s middlemen

Richard Fletcher

June 23 2014, 1:01am, The Times

Jamie, left, and Carl Jackson, have retail in their blood. As children they helped their parents, who owned fashion shops in the Midlands

When most people emigrate to Australia they take a few extra suitcases on the plane and sometimes ship a few extra bits and bobs. But Jamie Jackson is not most people. When the retail entrepreneur arrived in Australia in 2006 he had his suitcases as well as 30 shipping containers stuffed full of surplus winter stock.

It was during a trip in 2001 to see The Lions play in Australia that Jamie Jackson had decided to emigrate. “I came back and said to my wife: ‘This is where we can bring up the family’.”

It took “a few years” for the former French Connection executive to build up the “courage and cash” to leave Britain. Never mind persuade his wife. In the UK he had…